Plenty of visitors on their way home this week after family visits. They included a Danish woman here to see her daughter who had married an Aussie and an English couple visiting family in the Camden area.
One English woman was here for the wedding of her daughter in Sydney. The wedding reception on Sydney Harbour was actually filmed for an upcoming episode of the Masterchef cooking show. She has another daughter already married to an Aussie and living here so I guess she will be making many more visits 'Down Under'.
I also chatted to an Aussie who has been living in Sri Lanka for over a year and was just home on a short visit to see family in Canberra. There was also a German guy here on business for 2 weeks, a friendly French lady who travelled around the country with a friend and a Canadian backpacker on his way to Rome who had just loved his few months stay in Australia.
I'm often surprised at how adventurous some of our visitors are and their willingness and ability to be able to easily drive cars or campervans around a rather different country to their own. This week I spoke to a young Swiss couple who drove a campervan all the way from Perth to Darwin.
Till next time.
Peter
Souvenirs Australia Warehouse
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
From Marla to Sydney Harbour and Kangaroos
Another fascinating bunch of travellers leaving Sydney last weekend. Here are some of the most memorable.
I chatted to a New Zealander who had been working for 3 weeks straight at Marla. I had to admit to him that I had never heard of the place. It's actually on the main highway north of Coober Pedy in South Australia. His occupation was a surveyor and he had worked in many remote parts of Australia. Just to get home to Christchurch was a 2 day expedition for him - Marla-Coober Pedy (road) - Adelaide (air) - Sydney (air) - Christchurch (air).
My next interviewee was a Chinese woman with an American partner whose form of accommodation for their 2 week stay in Sydney was their own yacht on Sydney Harbour. It beats paying a hotel bill and think about the view!! They had owned the boat since 2001 and made regular trips back to Sydney since then.
A Finnish gentleman on his way home had just attended a sporting related conference in Canberra. The most interesting part of his stay was when he decided to walk back to his hotel from the Brumbies Rugby game at Canberra late one night. He came across a kangaroo jumping through a park and suburban streets. Actually this can be quite a regular occurrence as I learned during the 25 years that I lived in Canberra.
On a British Airways flight home was an English couple who had spent 2 weeks in Sydney and the Blue Mountains after a 7 week continuous voyage on a P & O crusie ship from Southampton. They'd had a great holiday and their journey home was going to be much quicker.
Other interesting visitors this week included a Kiwi living in France who was in Sydney to run a
1 week course at a university, an older Russian women from St. Petersburg here for only 4 days for a UN/Government conference, a Scottish guy here with his girlfriend to fulfil his duty and visit her relatives in Sydney & Perth & and a friendly young Italian backpacker who spoke about her camping adventure tour in Central Australia.
As always, till next week.
Cheers
Peter
Souvenirs Australia Warehouse
I chatted to a New Zealander who had been working for 3 weeks straight at Marla. I had to admit to him that I had never heard of the place. It's actually on the main highway north of Coober Pedy in South Australia. His occupation was a surveyor and he had worked in many remote parts of Australia. Just to get home to Christchurch was a 2 day expedition for him - Marla-Coober Pedy (road) - Adelaide (air) - Sydney (air) - Christchurch (air).
My next interviewee was a Chinese woman with an American partner whose form of accommodation for their 2 week stay in Sydney was their own yacht on Sydney Harbour. It beats paying a hotel bill and think about the view!! They had owned the boat since 2001 and made regular trips back to Sydney since then.
A Finnish gentleman on his way home had just attended a sporting related conference in Canberra. The most interesting part of his stay was when he decided to walk back to his hotel from the Brumbies Rugby game at Canberra late one night. He came across a kangaroo jumping through a park and suburban streets. Actually this can be quite a regular occurrence as I learned during the 25 years that I lived in Canberra.
On a British Airways flight home was an English couple who had spent 2 weeks in Sydney and the Blue Mountains after a 7 week continuous voyage on a P & O crusie ship from Southampton. They'd had a great holiday and their journey home was going to be much quicker.
Other interesting visitors this week included a Kiwi living in France who was in Sydney to run a
1 week course at a university, an older Russian women from St. Petersburg here for only 4 days for a UN/Government conference, a Scottish guy here with his girlfriend to fulfil his duty and visit her relatives in Sydney & Perth & and a friendly young Italian backpacker who spoke about her camping adventure tour in Central Australia.
As always, till next week.
Cheers
Peter
Souvenirs Australia Warehouse
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
The Wrong Sydney and Russian & Kiwi Family Visits
As per usual I met some nice friendly visitors to the land of OZ in this last week but also a few more people than normal that weren't keen on talking.
There were quite a few family gatherings that included a Russian lady from Petersburg who had just spent 6 months with her daughter in Canberra and a very sociable Kiwi who had been babysitting the grandchildren in Sydney while the parents were holidaying in Europe. I also spoke to an Irish woman who had come a long way to see her sick sister in Sydney.
I sometimes get some very interesting passport/nationality/ethnic/residency mixes. One this week was a Thai who was travelling on a Swedish passport and came to visit a friend in Sydney. She had been married to a Swede but was now separated and back in Thailand while her children were still at school in Sweden.
Other friendly chats I had included one with a student from Saudi Arabia studying in Sydney and a Canadian guy in the hotel business who had been in Sydney for work for a few days and was on his way to Beijing also for business. While we have large numbers of Asian students now studying in Australia, I hadn't come across any from Saudi before.
One person I didn't get to talk to was an Argentine tourist who ended up in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada instead of Sydney, Australia. Read about it here. She booked the flights online so maybe she should use a good travel agent next time!
Till next time.
Peter
Souvenirs Australia Warehouse
There were quite a few family gatherings that included a Russian lady from Petersburg who had just spent 6 months with her daughter in Canberra and a very sociable Kiwi who had been babysitting the grandchildren in Sydney while the parents were holidaying in Europe. I also spoke to an Irish woman who had come a long way to see her sick sister in Sydney.
I sometimes get some very interesting passport/nationality/ethnic/residency mixes. One this week was a Thai who was travelling on a Swedish passport and came to visit a friend in Sydney. She had been married to a Swede but was now separated and back in Thailand while her children were still at school in Sweden.
Other friendly chats I had included one with a student from Saudi Arabia studying in Sydney and a Canadian guy in the hotel business who had been in Sydney for work for a few days and was on his way to Beijing also for business. While we have large numbers of Asian students now studying in Australia, I hadn't come across any from Saudi before.
One person I didn't get to talk to was an Argentine tourist who ended up in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada instead of Sydney, Australia. Read about it here. She booked the flights online so maybe she should use a good travel agent next time!
Till next time.
Peter
Souvenirs Australia Warehouse
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